( 1XXνii ) recite the sacred books, songsters to sing hymns, and other men and women too numerous tó mention. Fe also built temples at Benares and Brindaban, and made arrangements for feeding the poor. He spent ten lakhs of rupees in the marriage of his second son, making costly gifts to Brahmans on the occasion and distributing alms to the poor. He made a free gift of his ancestral habitation at Bali to his family priest and also gave him the daily income that is toll of the Chandi Chauk. In fact the acts of his princely munificence are too numerous to relate. The great poet Ram Prasad Sen, whose hymns in praise of the goddess Primordial Energy and whose mystic songs on the secrets of life and soul in the most popular language and in a peculiar tune, still sung by high and low all over Bengal, was an accountant under Gokul Mitra. Ram Prasad wrote a life of his patron, which we have not seen, but which is said to be a curiosity as showing how biographies of great men were written in those days, Bihari Lal Mitra is a great grandson of Gokul Mitra.
